The Functional Team Lead acts as the senior coordination and expertise role within the E2E Team. The position ensures alignment across involved functions, drives end-to-end transparency, and steers operational execution through guidance, prioritization, and continuous improvement. While not holding disciplinary responsibility, the role provides functional leadership, decision support, and acts as escalation point within the E2E process.
▪ Operate & Coordinate end‑to‑end planning activities for the assigned product or customer group, ensuring alignment across all involved functions
▪ Guide and oversee demand planning and order allocation activities, providing direction and prioritization for operational execution
▪ Ensure effective inventory planning and allocation frameworks, enabling service level fulfillment while balancing risks and constraints
▪ Drive and challenge demand and supply balancing decisions based on short‑ and mid‑term planning data, ensuring feasibility and transparency
▪ Ensure integration of customer-specific and market requirements into planning processes through cross-functional alignment
▪ Act as escalation point for customer- and market-related topics, ensuring timely resolution and structured communication
▪ Coordinate product phase-in and phase-out activities from a planning and operational readiness perspective
▪ Ensure end-to-end transparency on order status, enabling proactive communication and decision-making for the assigned scope
▪ Drive continuous optimization of processes and guidelines, identifying inefficiencies and initiating improvements within the operational scope
▪ Ensure consistent application of work instructions and standard processes
▪ Lead operational improvement initiatives/ projects
▪ Actively contribute to cross-functional projects, representing the function and ensuring alignment with operational requirements
Degree in SCM, Economics, Engineering, Operations, Business (university / university of applied science) or Apprenticeship with more than 5 years work experience in SCM
Extensive professional experience in supply chain, order management and E2E SIOP operations
Advanced SAP know-how (e.g. SD/MM/PP/APO), including understanding of system interdependencies and data flows
The well-being of our employees is important to us. That's why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good work-life balance with additional benefits such as:
- Training opportunities
- Mobile and flexible working models
- Sabbaticals
and much more...
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